For those of you who did not know Patricia Tackett, she graduated from Lake Worth High School in 1976 and was the daughter of Wayne Akers who founded Wayne Akers Ford located on 10th Avenue North in Lake Worth. She lived in Atlantis and on the west coast of Florida.

Her dealership property, co-owned by her and her surviving bother after her brother Wayne Akers Jr. died in a plane crash in 2000, at one time had the highest property value in Lake Worth. In 2004, the property was assessed at $6,820,231 and was the most valuable property in the city. Two years ago, it was assessed at $7,095,140. In 2013, there were two other properties in Lake Worth worth more: Palm Beach Mobile Home Park LLC and Palm Club Townhomes LLC.

Chaz Stevens wrote a letter to the city commission of Deerfield Beach:

Dear City of Deerfield Beach;

With the recent US Supreme Court ruling allowing “prayer before
Commission meetings” and seeking the rights granted to others, I hereby
am requesting I be allowed to open a Commission meeting praying for my
God, my divine spirit, my Dude in Charge.

Be advised, I am a Satanist.

Let me know when this is good for you.

Stevens has vowed to fight them in court if they did not end prayer. Now the City of Deerfield Beach is ending invocations before the commission meetings. What is the world coming to? Ruled by minorities, it is getting asinine.

Catholic Online said: “Let’s be clear … language matters when it comes to defining freedoms and limits. A shift from freedom of religion to freedom of worship moves the dialog from the world stage into the physical confines of a church, temple, synagogue or mosque. … It … could exclude our right to raise our children in our faith, the right to religious education, literature or media, the right to raise funds or organize charitable activities and the right to express religious beliefs in the normal discourse of life.”

From the Vatican--

The Vatican, the report said, described it this way: “Religious freedom, in turn, which men demand as necessary to fulfill their duty to worship God, has to do with immunity from coercion in civil society.”

The Alliance Defending Freedom has cited the Obama administration’s use, since Cairo, of “freedom of worship” to undermine “freedom of religion,” as one of the “direct attacks on religious freedom” by Obama.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

This morning, I watched the Community Safety Roundtable symposium for a couple of hours held at the Palm Beach County Commission chambers to talk about police tactics and where citizens could express their concerns. This was organized by mayor Priscilla Taylor because of the recent incidents in Ferguson and Baltimore. Police chiefs from several communities were there. Rick Bradshaw had another commitment.

The purposes was to open a dialogue with the public as well as the police in order to discuss, bad officers, over zealous policing as well as the dangers police officers face every day and try to come to some sort of understanding between the police and the people they serve.

Then this afternoon, 20 SWAT officers conducted a drug raid on a house in Palm Springs and did $10,000 worth of damage tearing up the place while serving a warrant. Only problem, it was the wrong house. PBSO even ripped out her security cameras. The owner says she doesn't have the money to make repairs and the PBSO says she needs to front the money before she gets reimbursed.

This is exactly what the public is talking about when they cite problems with the police.

My favorite reality shows are The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Why? Because I still think there is some hope for "love." This new Bachelorette season recently began and one of the men vying for the hand of Kaitlyn Bristowe is Ryan Beckett of Wellington.

While Obama sits around twiddling his thumbs, not listening to his generals or the Pentagon and thinking air strikes alone will end the atrocities and push back those be-heading innocent people and terrorists hell-bent on coming to our country to do the same, another crazy evil person has joined ISIS.

"Listen, you dogs, the president and ministers, if only you knew how many boys, our brothers are here, waiting and yearning to return to Tajikistan to re-establish sharia law there,” he said, addressing Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon. “We are coming to you, God willing, we are coming to you with slaughter,” said Khalimov, a 40-year-old native of the Tajik capital Dushanbe.

Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov spoke in Russian, sitting in front of a palm tree, and sported a new beard. It was not clear which country he was in. Khalimov said he had been trained by elite Russian “spetsnaz” forces in Moscow and U.S. special forces in America. “Listen, you American pigs, I’ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims,” he said, patting his rifle. “God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you.” Read more... at The Jerusalem Post.

Well, Washington is where everything happens when it comes to laws. Sober Houses has been a constant and growing concern in Lake Worth and one that is in great need of systemic improvements. What better place to seek solutions than Washington D.C.? Read and view the video on Amoroso's meeting with Marco Rubio and Lois Frankel.

And in Florida, Bill Hager has successfully shepherded his HB 21toward passage in the House by a vote of 113-2. Jeff Clemens is again running the Senate companion bill this year, SB 326 which now is in Appropriations, where it died last year without being considered.

CS/CS/SB 326: Substance Abuse Services
GENERAL BILL by Appropriations ; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs ; Clemens ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Sachs
Substance Abuse Services; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to create a voluntary certification program for recovery residences; directing the department to approve at least one credentialing entity by a specified date to develop and administer the certification program; requiring background screening of owners, directors, and chief financial officers of a recovery residence; requiring the department to publish the list on its website, etc.

(A) PUBLIC POLICY.

(1) An employer who knowingly or intentionally employs an unauthorized alien violates the employer’s licenses.

(2) Effective on July 1 of the year following
passage of this section by the voters, every employer shall, after
making an offer of employment which has been accepted by an employee,
verify the employment eligibility of each new employee using the
Employment Authorization Program. Such verification shall occur within
the period stipulated by federal law or regulations after the hiring of
the employee.

(3) The provisions of this section shall be enforceable without regard to race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or national origin.

Dear Florida Activist,
Thank you if you
already filled out your ballot petition! We are now receiving petitions from
Pensacola to Miami! Unfortunately they are not coming in fast enough to reach
our goal. We need 68,000 signatures by July 1, 2015 in order for us to go to
automatic Florida Supreme Court review.

A few facts from Ann Coulter's new book, “Adios, America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole

Following are excerpts from her book on Mexico:

America has already taken in one-fourth of Mexico’s entire population. I give that sentence number 1 status as it is shocking!

There are more foreign inmates in New York state prisons from Mexico
than from the entire continent of Europe.

In some areas of America, law enforcement authorities have given up on prosecuting statutory rape cases against Mexican men in their 30s who impregnate 12- and 13-year-old girls, after repeatedly encountering parents who view their little girls’ pregnancies as a “blessing.”

Since 2004, Mexicans have beheaded at least a half-dozen people in the United States.

Attorney Jack Scarola, on behalf of the Guatemalan Maya Center in Lake
Worth, had asked for DOJ to investigate PBSO after Augusto Garcia was
knocked to the ground and handcuffed by a deputy after calling police
for help. He had to be taken to a hospital and is now suing the
department.

Hudson
Holdings is like Greater Bay, a company that also tried, through “local
government,” to take Lake Worth’s public beach property but failed — due
to the citizens of the city standing up and saying “no.”

When
will shortsighted politicians realize that government is not a business
enterprise? And that public green space is a source of wealth for the
city and should not be sold for the profit of a few?

Lake Worth has what many other cities in South Florida had:
open green space on the Intracoastal Waterway and a beautiful beach for
all to enjoy. We should be expanding green space, not selling it off.

So
once again, people of Lake Worth, let’s send the message to our
politicians: “Hands off our beach” and “no” to private development of
our public spaces.

JAMES THOMSON
LAKE WORTH

Note: When Mr. Thompson refers to "selling" he is actually referring to handing over control of our casino/complex property up to a possible 99 years on a lease with options. That is the same thing as "selling." Also, the only reasons that Greater Bay failed to gain control of our beach besides public protest, was the McCauley/McNamara lawsuit and a change in the commission. It is disgusting that the people of this city have to watch its government this closely in order to save our assets.

I went to the meeting this morning for code cases. The Common Ground Church license issue was to appear before the magistrate, Diane James, but it was not on the agenda. I asked code enforcement officer Gerry Coscia about it and he said that it had all been settled the day before. Both sides are happy and Pastor Mike Olive says, "We are excited about moving forward and doing good with the city."
Congratulations to the church and to the city.

A federal judge rejected the Obama
administration’s latest effort to delay release of some of former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails, issuing an order
Wednesday demanding that the State Department start rolling out the
emails on a firm schedule every month.

Judge Rudolph
Contreras gave the department until the end of January to complete the
production of all 30,000 emails, which means the final messages will be
released about the same time Mrs. Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic
presidential nomination, prepares to face voters.

Dave Kerner is a former Lake Worth police officer and special prosecutor and now represents District 87 as a state representative. He has decided to concentrate on Palm Beach County and is now running for Shelley Vana's seat that is term limited.

Dave says, "Through bipartisanship and consensus building, I have worked to help Florida attract new companies to our state and the Palm Beach County region. I understand that creating jobs for Florida’s families, we need to keep taxes low for small businesses and ensure Florida has top notch schools and healthcare."

In Lake Worth, we had 120 less crimes in 2014 than we did in 2013 according to PBSO. Big whoopie because no one is feeling any significant difference. That's because there isn't any. Every year we get this same report that crime is down.

And now politicians are drooling at the lip and delighted as all get-out! Great PR. The mayor is quoted as saying: The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office recently assigned
additional officers to an operation to combat crime. Those
extra officers have been working the late shift, normally from 10 p.m.
to about 6 a.m., when many crimes occur. “That extra push is going to help us quite a bit,” Triolo said. “They’re focusing on those late-night burglaries.” At a neighborhood meeting, a deputy told us that the vast majority of burglaries take place during the day.

The Vice Mayor, Scott Maxwell, who ran on eliminating slum and blight, was even more profound when he said, “Unfortunately we have some undesirable elements in our city and some
blighted neighborhoods. Even though crime is down
overall, and that’s a great trend, that’s still not good enough. We have
to stay more diligent and keep after it.”

I’m
extremely disturbed that a mother was thrown in jail in Palm Beach
County and kept there for a week for refusing to allow her 4-year-old
son to be circumcised.
There is no legitimate health reason for a boy to be circumcised.

Of
course, there are plenty of doctors who will say there are health
reasons to justify circumcision. But doctors also used to recommend
lobotomies. (In fact, the inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel Prize in
1949.)
The rights of the mother to protect her child cannot be
trampled by any court or by any judge. Heather Hironimus acted to
protect the life and safety of her child. The judge should have
respected her right to protect her child from harm.

As for Judge Jeffrey Gillen, who ordered the arrest of Hironimus … When is he up for re-election?

MARGARET MENGE
LAKE WORTH

PBPost Editor’s note: After spending nine nights in jail,
Hironimus was released on Saturday after she signed a consent form to
allow the circumcision. Gillen was elected without opposition in 2014
after having been appointed to the court by Gov. Rick Scott in 2012 to
fill a vacancy. Circuit judges serve six-year terms.

Editor's Note: Circumcision is an elective option that parents
make for their sons. In this case there was a difference of opinion and the father wants it done for religious reasons. Ultimately, it should be done at infancy--
The
best time for infant circumcision is when your baby is between 24 and
72 hours old - Just the Facts Baby.
This child is four years old. Doesn't the mother have rights too? Doesn't the child? Why would the mother be jailed after trying to protect her son? She was forced by the Court to sign a consent form to allow her son to have this procedure...she faced 5 years in prison! Really outrageous.

Watch this video if you missed it last night...it has everything: idiotic and rude black activists to Sheriff David Clarke commenting on the entire Obama transformation of policing in the 21st Century. Obama almost suggested an excuse for these demonstrations by blaming the plight of poor blacks on corrupt politicians and Wall Street. Listen to all the stupid excuses for these destructive demonstrations caused by what they claim as "racism" and white supremacy.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The Washington Times – Updated: 2:39 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2015
A federal appeals court upheld an
injunction against President Obama’s new deportation in a ruling
Tuesday that marks the second major legal setback for an administration
that had insisted its actions were legal.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Texas, which had sued to stop the
amnesty, on all key points, finding that Mr. Obama’s amnesty likely
broke the law governing how big policies are to be written.“The public interest favors maintenance of the injunction,” the judges wrote in the majority opinion.

Nearly every day I wonder why I am still a member of the Democratic Party. It simply amazes me as liberals have ruined our country--there is no way under God's green Earth that we can sustain ourselves. We are on our way to not only socialism and doling out money to every one who asks, but non-secularism. We are becoming passive when confronted by our enemies and even supposedly with the best military on Earth, we are not trying to defeat them. And whether Democrats want to admit it or not, Republican states are out-performing liberal states.

The headline in today's Palm Beach Post reads: Parties seem to diverge on Muslims. Apparently there was a fundraising dinner organized by the Palm Beach County Democratic Party and the American Muslim Alliance where both groups were kissy face. Top Democrats in the county attended the dinner.

Finally after 1.5 hours, Ken Sommers, Democratic activist, actually had the courage not to be politically correct and asked about the Muslim violence in other parts of the world as well as the be-headings and other atrocities. Inman Abdul Hakin stated that there is "no justification for violence" and all the Democrats knowingly smiled and readily accepted the Inman's statement that explained nothing. If he said it, it must be fact. Obviously, these tens of thousands of Muslim terrorists are an anomaly, Democrats believe.

According to Breitbart, the Iranian
elite paramilitary force leader Major General Qassem Soleimani accused
the United States of having “no will” to fight the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria and blasted President Barack Obama as not having “done a damn
thing” to quell the terrorist insurgency.

There may be no justification for violence as the Inman stated, but it is happening, justification or not. We see it on the news every day. Evil persists. If you read the Quran, it promotes death to non-believers of the Muslim faith. As sister Hatune Dogan said, “Twenty-five times in the Quran it says to kill Christians because we
are involved in polytheism [which is untrue]. Also it says to not make
friends with Christians. A mosque is not just for prayer, it is to
prepare to kill the unbeliever and control the world.”

Muslims worldwide have been encouraged by the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) to embrace jihad, claiming Islamist fighters
will one day conquer Rome, the capital of Christianity. I have no doubt that they will try and kill tens maybe hundreds of thousands of people on the way to fulfilling their mission.

The Republican Party is planning on an event to bring forth the realistic side of the Inman's "We are a non-violent people" argument while the Democratic Party keeps its politically naive head in the sand.

"I
know we have a long way to go before the 2016 presidential election, but
I have already chosen.

I think Hillary would make a wonderful
president... just kidding... only if we want another eight years of
lying, cheating, ignoring the Constitution, destroying our place in the
world order, and ignoring the major economic and societal problems we
face, focusing instead on nonsense like climate change.

No, my choice among all the conservative candidates is Sen. Marco Rubio."

Read the entire article... at Daily Inter Lake and read this author's reasons for wanting Marco Rubio as our next president of the United States. It makes sense to me.

Most of us have heard that the Rinaldi's (John Rinaldi was the former chair of the Lake Worth Planning & Zoning Board) Bed & Breakfast is on the market. The asking price is $1,395,000.00, for Sabal Palm House at 109 N. Golfview Road situated across from the golf course and Intracoastal Waterway. Walking distance from downtown shopping, dining and the beach, it is a beautiful property. According to the Property Appraiser, the total market value is $478,390 and taxes are $13,212.

A really nice story on fallen heroes across Florida and honoring their memory today--"While Florida has five centuries of recorded history, the Sunshine State is still fairly new to the United States. More of its history was under the Spanish flag than the stars and stripes. Nonetheless, there are a number of sites across the state that entertain and instruct -- as well as honor our fallen soldiers and sailors."

"Matt Drudge, conservative, unleashed on the Republican Party Friday
after the GOP Congress gave Barack Obama sweeping new powers when the Republican Senate passed Obamatrade Friday without reading the bill".

Why this bill is a big deal. It would allow the power to submit trade deals to Congress for an up-or-down vote with limited debate and no amendments. Congress can't change it.

In a rather bizarre situation, the president’s ability to finalize a trade deal was pushed through by
Senate Republicans. Last night 48 Republicans joined with 14 Democrats
to successfully approve the measure. The vote was 62-38.

"After World War II—in which another 405,000 American lives were
lost—Memorial Day also became a day to pray for peace, and since 1950
every president has included such a plea in his Memorial Day remarks.
Since the year 2000, each president has also asked Americans to pause at
3 p.m. local time for a moment of silent reflection.

One hundred years after John Logan issued his order for the first
national Decoration Day, in 1968, Congress finally declared Memorial Day
a national holiday. In so doing, however, Congress moved the
celebration from May 30 to the last Monday in May, as part of the
Uniform Holiday Bill that created the three-day weekend, in part, "to
stimulate greater industrial and commercial production."

As with the
other holidays affected—Washington's Birthday, Labor Day, Columbus Day,
and Veterans Day—the change has been met with some resistance, and many
veterans' groups advocated for returning the day's observance to May 30." Source: Alumniclass.com

Comment Up"Fashionable
ideas and opinions - which these days can be a religion all by itself -
have got a problem with Christians and their right of conscience.
...That makes it our problem, and the proper response is a forthright
defense of the first freedom in our Constitution.

The
progressive political agenda is ready for its next great leap forward,
and religious people or churches are getting in the way. Our friends on
the left like to view themselves as the agents of change and reform, and
you and I are supposed to just get with the program.."

~ Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush gave the commencement speech last Saturday to 34,000 students at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University

Our newly assigned Palm Beach Post reporter had an article published today on our Lake Worth Casino regarding last Tuesday night's commission meeting--Residents want Casino Plan. That was the title in the hard copy of today's paper.

Now, for the life of me, I can't figure out where that title came from. Residents don't want a plan unless leaving our beach park alone and the city efficiently managing our asset is the plan. We just all approved of a plan several years ago and our casino complex and beach redevelopment is exactly what we said that we wanted in the charette. No one is "weary" about what we want at our beach as we have what we want. We are weary that a football keeps being thrown at us to change the complex and even consider losing control of anything there. There are still people who want more commercial development at our beach. We really wanted more amenities than we got but had to scale down the "wants" from the "needs" because of money. Can you even imagine if we had spent more than we did? Maxwell would be having a stroke.

Following are some of the important points that were NOT mentioned in the article:

1. The $6 million was borrowed from ourselves out of reserves to build the casino. There are people out there who believe we are defaulting on a loan. We are not.
2. This commission has voted to delay principal payments because of other issues.
3. We have paid back $250,000 in 2014 and 2015 and have paid all interest.
4. The mayor is wrong about our pool. It IS regulation for high school and college for 25 foot meets.
5. The city has 100% failed to market our pool or to even let visitors know we have a pool.
6. We just upgraded our entire beach park of 19 acres with the casino opening in 2012 for $13 million. Maxwell and the CM are not allowing the financial plan to work because the city has not rented the upstairs space and threw into expenses the pool operations that never were included in the financial plan.
7. The city manager went out on an ITN on his own initiative. It was brought before the commission with no discussion or approval by the public. The CM appointed the Select Committee other than commissioner Amoroso. There was never any discussion on this and if there was, they would have known to keep their hands off our beach.

I could go on and on about this but these are some of the highlights that the article didn't address.

Please be praying for Common Ground Church. We will be going before the Lake Worth Magistrate this week. Pray that we will walk in humility, boldness and favor. Pray for our cities."

As everyone knows, the church was cited by Lake Worth for not having a business license to conduct church services at their coffee shop. A commissioner in the downtown supposedly turned them in and the city wanted them to fill out a form for an "accessory use." The city mentioned "safety concerns" and "non-compliance with ADA." Olive went ahead and paid the $160 for the Accessory Use request. He already had a use and occupancy permit at that location for the coffee shop.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Dozens of pigeons hanging out on Benny's roof.
Not one pelican was in sight.

Deputy sheriffs all over the upper beach checking out coolers for alcoholic beverages. This guy was ordered to turn around and put his cooler back in his vehicle. Upper photo, one deputy is describing a perp as young, good-looking...don't know what he did. We were sitting next to two women who were obviously inebriated. The beach was packed and it was a perfect day with calm water. We were told that the heat factor was supposed to reach 100^ today!

Under the direction of teacher, John Weatherspoon, a twenty-five year instructor of choral conducting and teaching at Lake Worth High, the students gave a wonderful performance at their annual Spring Concert.

It started off with the singing of the National Anthem with those in the audience joining in. The chorus performed songs from Oliver, Phantom of the Opera, A Chorus Line and many more Broadway shows in a show that lasted over two hours.

Their biggest achievement for the year was getting the chance to sing at Carnegie Hall. Also, they won many awards at District and State competitions. It was a great night.

Florida's Water and Land Legacy says, On June 1, the Florida Legislature will convene for a special session in Tallahassee to pass the state budget and decide how to spend Amendment 1 funds.
Help us send them back to Tallahassee with this voter-approved to-do list:
Fund Florida Forever
- Fund Everglades Restoration
- Protect our Springs.

Find a rally happening near you and add your voice!
This is our last chance to convince our legislators to finish the job and protect Florida's natural treasures before they are gone forever.

Find a Rally near you . Please join us on Saturday, May 30--tell your legislators to fund water and land conservation!
For Florida!

The Scott team won a big one this week. Does anybody really believe that without the Scotties' lawsuit bluster, without the governor's health-care-commission showmanship and his trip to Washington and his ideological kinship with the House speaker, the Feds would be proposing $1 billion for LIP next year?"

“The decision about whether or not to expand Medicaid is a state option … Regardless of whether a state expands Medicaid, uncompensated care pool funding should not pay for costs that would be covered in Medicaid expansion,” federal health officials said in a letter.

So Florida's argument with the Obama administration left his budget $1 billion short. Scott pressed, waited for the ideal time and through clever strategies, got the money. Now the State does not have to expand Medicaid.

The City of Lake Worth’s Refuse Division will be having a RESIDENTIAL VEGETATION (ONLY) AMNESTY PICK UP SERVICE beginning May 25, 2015 and will be picked up on the following days: Zone 1 Monday May 25th, Zone 2 Thursday May 28th, Zone 3 Friday May 29th and Zone 4 Tuesday May 26th. The vegetation amnesty week is designed to allow residents to dispose of large amounts of vegetation prior to the commencement of Hurricane Season (not to exceed 12 cubic yards per residential property).

Please place all vegetation curbside on your regular scheduled day and the City of Lake Worth’s Refuse Division will remove it at no charge.

DEFINITIONS OF VEGETATION ITEMS ARE AS FOLLOWS

• Includes bagged leaves, grasses, and tree or shrubbery cuttings incidental to the care of your lawn and garden that are capable of being containerized. (Please use the green container with the black lid for all vegetation that will fit inside the container.)

• Tree branches less than (2) inches in diameter, branches and palm fronds less than (4) feet in length, and stumps less than (15) inches in diameter and or less than fifty (50) pounds.

For more information on this please feel free to call the Public Services Refuse Department at (561) -533-7344

Last night the 8th Hurricane Seminar on hurricane preparedness was held at the Lake Worth Golf Course. Kevin Addison was host. It was very well attended in a perfect venue and I believe it to be the best one ever. The Beach Club encouraged people to stay to dine on their special of buy one, get one dinner free and many took them up on their offer. Drew Martin, elected in 2014 to be our representative of the Palm Beach
Soil & Water Conservation District Seat 2 spoke to the crowd.

Vendors were well represented and all introduced themselves and their product/service. PBSO deputy Mike Mahoney spoke and his lucky mom Janet won two door prizes! Kevin and BarbaraJean worked diligently on door prizes and businesses graciously donated wonderful prizes--Ace Hardware, Elegant Lady, Lake Worth Jewelers, SouthShore Restaurant, Dave's Last Resort, Walgreens and EAS Shipping to name a few. Maurice Luz gave one from Milton's grooming parlor and one from his hair salon. Home Depot donated a gas grill worth $100 and one of the vendors donated a gas generator.

The main feature was Mike Lyons Meteorologist at WPBF 25 who gave an interesting talk on hurricanes in general as well as those from the past that affected Florida and caused so much damage. He did say that our hurricane season this year is predicted to be minimal because of El Nino. An El Niño weather pattern usually causes frequent periods of high wind
shear. Wind shear causes the vertical column of spinning air within a
system to become tilted, inhibiting the development of storms. Lyons said only one major storm is predicted this hurricane season that begins on June 1 lasting six months. A major storm is a category 3 or higher. So, start preparing now--buy your batteries, can goods and water. After his presentation, he stayed to help with awarding the door prizes.

In 2004, we got a double whammy two weeks apart when Frances and Jeanne hit the Palm Beach area.

Hurricane Jeanne blew down many of the ficus trees along Lake Osborne.

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12-10-2017“It is, of course, completely plausible that one source might innocently misread a date on a document. But how is it remotely plausible that multiple sources could all innocently and in good faith misread the date in exactly the same way?" — The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald on a false Trump/Russia Report

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Wisconsin is moving forward with a plan to drug test some food stamp recipients, and most voters nationwide would like to see a similar plan in the state they live in.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters believe any American applying for food stamps in their state should be drug tested. Just 31% disagree. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

BAD POLITICS--the 48th worst decision--Trio voted to support a sales tax hike from 6% to7% with no discussion. 4-5-16

BAD POLITICS--the 47th worst--Scott Maxwell and the city manager working behind the scenes out of the sunshine to bring the Atlanta Braves to John Prince Park and ruin an entire neighborhood and public park. 3-23-16

BAD POLITICS--the 46th worst fiasco--treating the seniors at the mobile home park like garbage

BAD POLITICS--the 41st worst and non-transparent maneuver--Secret meetings! Even considering more commercialization at our beach by John Szerdi's employer

BAD POLITICS--the 40th worst decision--still trying to grab the cash with no details on going out on another general obligation bond. "We want it; we need it and we want to tax you for it." 1-27-15

BAD POLITICS--the 39th worst performance--Allowed an atheist to give the invocation and immediately before he spoke, walked out of the meeting falling right into the publicity trap set by him. 12-2-14

BAD POLITICS - the 38th worst decision--the mayor allowing two of her supporters to make personal attacks in a city commission meeting against another citizen because she didn't like a graphic depicting her on a blog. 9-9-14

BAD POLITICS - the 37th worst decision--encouraging their city attorney to invite people to the meeting in order to "make a case" against the Canvassing Board and the election process. 9-5-14

BAD POLITICS - the 36th worst self-serving statement--the mayor calling those who voted against the city's money-grab in the Aug 26, 2014 election as "broken" and playing games just to win.

BAD POLITICS - the 34th worst maneuvering behind the scenes to force the LWHigh Flea Market to pay fees to continue its operations so it can raise scholarship money for poor kids and force it from its 27 year location.

BAD POLITICS - the 32nd egregious action--Apr 18, 2014 met with Shelley Vana and other politicians and lawyers to proceed with John Prince Park as a national ballfield, never once contacting the adjacent neighbors.

BAD POLITICS - the 31st dumbest thing--Apr 2014 changed our ordinance now allowing dogs on our beach park...now Fido will be all over the place.

BAD POLITICS- the 29th dumbest thing--made a resolution to bulldoze parts of John Prince Park for a national Spring training stadium

BAD POLITICS - the 28th worst thing--Jan 2014 amended the budget and moved $12.5 million from Reserves to spend on projects now. No one knows for sure

BAD POLITICS - the 27th worst thing--Conjured up a plan to repave 50% of the roadways and place the infrastructure at the Park of Commerce. Might cost the taxpayers $100 million or more for a 30 year obligation bond so that general contractors and developers can get rich

BAD POLITICS - the 26th worst thing they did--Voted to allow open container alcoholic drinking in our downtown, city parks and at our beach on city special events so that the city could make money from boozers and compete against our merchants

BAD POLITICS - the 25th worst thing they did--Fought the Heights Referendum and directed the city attorney to find a way and render an opinion to overturn the March 2013 vote. Caused a court opinion and tied up all development in our downtown

BAD POLITICS - the 24th wildest decision--Voting to have an Ordinance weaning off the city's dependency on the Electric Utility funding to operate our city thus lowering electric rates and making it a super-majority vote from the dais to over-turn it. This is a lofty dictatorship

BAD POLITICS - the 23rd worse decision--Bad and inferior advice coupled with their fear of losing, settled with the flim-flam man for $1.6 MILLION dollars...blaming their decision on everyone but themselves. At least the nightmare is over

BAD POLITICS - the 22nd Worst decision--Voting to rob Reserves (savings) $424,000, the Simpkin Trust to operate our library $100,000 and deplete the billboard settlement fund and use it for operations in the amount of $700,000

BAD POLITICS - the 21st worst Decision--Instead of living within our means and making additional cuts, passed the 2013 budget by robbing Reserves of $424,000 and $100,000 from Simpkin Trust

BAD POLITICS - the 20th worst decision--Voted not to accept the certified signatures for a Charter Amendment for Nov 2012 election. Delayed it to March 2013 special election to cost the taxpayers $21,000 dollars so that they could play politics to defeat it. The city lost. The people won by nearly 57% of the vote and this commission will not honor the vote.

BAD POLITICS - the 19th worst decision and the top one--Denied the citizens petition to appear on the ballot and our right to vote on heights in our downtown

BAD POLITICS - the 18th worse decision--Vice Mayor stalled the negotiations with Internal Auditor choice, Robert Marksmeier, after years of complaining that we needed an IA per the Charter. He failed to negotiate—Again

BAD POLITICS - the 17th Worst Decision--Visionaries said that the people could not vote on their raising heights of buildings in the downtown. People forced to a referendum under impossible odds.

BAD POLITICS - the 16th Worst decision--Trio of Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso voted to change the name of our city after 116 years and place on Nov 2012 ballot right before our 100th birthday! This bad decision was later rescinded

BAD POLITICS - the 14th worst decision--Decided they didn't like the name of our city after 116 years and voted to put name change on the ballot

BAD POLITICS - The 13 worst decision--Voted to accept first low-ball offer from FMPA to settle the law suit...negotiated nothing

BAD POLITICS - The 12th worst decision--Rewriting the Ordinance for the P&Z Board so they could kick off appointed volunteer members and put in their own "good ole boys

BAD POLITICS - The 11th worst decision--Ending the Zoning in Progress thus delaying multi-millions in development

BAD POLITICS - The 10th worst decision--Having City Manager Bornstein fire Kathleen Margoles without knowing her or giving her a chance because she stood up to Scott Maxwell. 4-18-12

BAD POLITICS - The 9th worst Decision--Had the City Manager STOP the Zoning in Progress

BAD POLITICS - The 8th worst decision--Voted to burn $40,000 already spent by not proceeding with the renovation of the 110 N F Street building and moving various departments. We are left with gutted building and employees working out of trailers

BAD POLITICS - The 7th worst decision--Voted to spend $1.7 million more than the beach bond without insisting the contractor reduce his costs and reduce his scope of work

BAD POLITICS - The 6th worst & corrupt decision--Changed its own directive and maneuvered unqualified Joe Kroll into a Top 5 spot for city manager when it was supposed to be Top 3 and then threw him under the bus for Bornstein

BAD POLITICS - The 5th worst vote--Appointed Range Riders and HR Director to find qualified applicants for city mgr and then shoved them out because they didn't like the results. They will now be doing it themselves

BAD POLITICS - The 4th worst thing--Kicking the can down the road--Did not want to take Staff's advice to fix the Utility customer service long term problem by outsourcing it as well as saving a bunch of money but instead capitulated to the Union

BAD POLITICS - The 3rd worst decision by this new commission--Changed our beach closing hours to 1:00am to accommodate a bar. Screwed long-time tenants out of rights of first refusals

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Although county staff has ruled out that site (John Prince Park) because of state deed restrictions on the park land, Lake Worth officials think those issues can be overcome.Read about it...

What the "Visionaries" cost Lake Worth

Paying Susan Stanton $124,395 after firing her because they didn't like her personality

Voting to pay an interim city manager $50,000 for four months minimum and then changed their minds after 65 resumes had already been submitted. Then voted to go with a permanent city mgr instead

Staff's advertisement of the position, compiling the commission criteria that took hours of staff time as well as digesting all of the applicant resumes and determining the top applicants

Appointing Range Rider volunteers to sift through recycled city manager resumes and then didn't like the results of their short list

Travel and lodging expenses for candidates to come here and interview as well as the same for Range Riders.

Tried their damndest to hire an unqualified former employee as city manager.

Hiring a new city manager so that they can manipulate him.

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Finally, the United States is no longer among the world's top 10 nations in terms of economic freedom, according to a newly published index. The world's largest economy slipped two notches into the 12th position in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom spelled out by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, registering its seventh consecutive decline. When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.

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Without firing a shot the left has seized the press, they have taken control of the banks, they’re about to take control of the insurance companies and wipe them out, much of the auto industry, the left is now setting a salary scale for people. They’ve taken over our currency, and they’re preparing to seize health care. We’re being occupied by the left.Rush Limbaugh

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